homecoming

   rude
      strai / ght armed shove
    pedestrian zone
   this the reason
        too

    condemned by an
     extraordinary voice

   sliding to the
       side
          sown

    precisely su / rmised
   man
     of the eloquent class

     one di[semb]arks
    co / nception
          many places
    such as
          alton’s caves
     hair on end
   cahokia’s mounds

     ex works
          harm well
   intended
         dis / tended
     cold & wintr / y
    streetlight-red
          and pu / mpkin rotten




canuck!

satellite
     crashes into house

      capsule
  of a canadian
           satellite
   has
[cr]ashed                                          sub signo
     into my house                         quatuor el / ementorum
          on return to
      earth
[cr]ashed
       following
      18 day mission
[cr]ashed

in space
    space probe
  in return flight                                mense martio
on thursd / ay                                       anno 1537
     in the bathtub
    deviating
      from course

   a resident
       distraught
        vacating
    the room
      just five minutes
   previous

       where the capsule
[cr]ashed in

       her husband
     leaves behind
        his wife
  as well as
       collapsed walls
      and exposed grey beams
bricks and
         rocks




erratic system

Would relayed
Your pupil viewfind
The beggars at the citadel without legs
Bright rocks sailing thro
Ugh the airway
Those lightbringers
In the seventh year of
Grace bloody money

My sister knitting on the gr
Een stump

My summer’s portrait at wiffl
Eballbat handle,
The strange knobbish textured
Toy dinousaurbacklike
Feel

Shunted rough
  Crossholed slider
No luck




Mark Kanak writes and translates from the German for journals such as Prague Literary Review and Umelec and is an editor for London based journal Stimulus Respond.



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